The Impact of Stigma on Treatment Services for People With Substance Use Disorders During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Perspectives of NECPAM Members

• Lisa Dannatt,
• Ramdas Ransing,
• Tanya Calvey,
• Florian Scheibein,
• Noha Ahmed Saad,
• Tomohiro Shirasaka,
• Rodrigo Ramalho,
• Sagun Pant,
• Ramyadarshni Vadivel,
• Kristiana Siste,
• M. J. Stowe,
• Kamal Narayan Kalita,
• Saïd Boujraf,
• Roberta Testa,
• Sidharth Arya,
• Nirvana Morgan,
• Paolo Grandinetti

Affiliations

Lisa Dannatt

Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Ramdas Ransing

Department of Psychiatry, Bhaktshreshtha Kamalakarpant Laxman (BKL) Walalwalkar Rural Medical College, Pune, India

Tanya Calvey

Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Florian Scheibein

School of Health Science, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland

Noha Ahmed Saad

State Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Tomohiro Shirasaka

Department of Psychiatry, Teine Keijinkai Medical Center, Sapporo, Japan

Rodrigo Ramalho

Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Sagun Pant

Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

Ramyadarshni Vadivel

Department of Mental Health and Addictions, Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton, New Zealand

Kristiana Siste

0Department of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Universitas Indonesia-Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia

M. J. Stowe

1Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Kamal Narayan Kalita

2Department of Psychiatry, Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health (LGBRIMH), Tezpur, India

Saïd Boujraf

3Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco

Roberta Testa

4Department of Mental Health, Azienda Sanitaria Locale (ASL) 1 Avezzano-L'Aquila-Sulmona, L'Aquila, Italy

Sidharth Arya

5State Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, Institute of Mental Health, Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma (BDS) University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India

Nirvana Morgan

6Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Paolo Grandinetti

7Department of Mental Helth, Azienda Sanitaria Locale (ASL) Teramo, Teramo, Italy